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Darren A. Cusanovich is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of Arizona, with an additional appointment as an Assistant Research Scientist at the Asthma & Airway Disease Research Center (A2DRC). His work bridges functional genomics, computational biology, and cellular biology, focusing on gene regulation in complex diseases like asthma using single-cell genomics technologies.
- Promotion: Elevated from Research Assistant Professor to Assistant Professor in 2021.
- Funding: Recipient of the NIGMS ESI MIRA R35 and UA Health Sciences Career Development Award.
Research interests revolve around deciphering how the human genome regulates cellular diversity and how genetic/environmental factors perturb this regulation to drive diseases. His lab develops novel single-cell assays (e.g., txci-ATAC-seq) to study chromatin accessibility and gene-environment interactions in asthma, COVID-19, and metabolic diseases.
Scientific contributions include a groundbreaking Science paper on single-cell ATAC-seq assays and the creation of scalable tools like SGRN and Swab-seq for genomic analysis and SARS-CoV-2 surveillance.
- Awards:
- ESI MIRA R35 (NIGMS, 2020)
- UA Health Sciences Career Development Award (2020)
Education includes a PhD in Human Genetics from The University of Chicago, postdoctoral work in Jay Shendure’s lab at the University of Washington, and a B.S. in Music Business from Loyola University New Orleans.
